To J. D. Hooker 8 [June 1863]
Summary
Sends Asa Gray letter to JDH. Gray’s "Coolness about England and U. S. beats anything".
John Scott’s difficulties at Edinburgh Botanic Garden.
JS’s paper on Primula crossing experiments.
Sends MS note about closing of stigma in orchids being dependent on affinity of pollen and independent of protusion of pollen-tubes.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 [June 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 158 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4207 |
Matches: 9 hits
- … from J. D. Hooker, [1 March 1863] . See letter from John Scott, [3 June 1863] and n. 3. …
- … 1864 ( Scott 1864a ). See the enclosure to the letter from John Scott, 21 May [1863] . …
- … See letter from John Scott, [3 June 1863] . Scott’s paper was subsequently published in …
- … Scott 1863a ; see letter from John Scott, 16 June [1863] ). The note referred to appeared …
- … See letter from John Scott, [3 June 1863] and n. 5; the reference is to John Hutton …
- … 29 May [1863] . See letter from John Scott, [3 June 1863] and n. 7; the reference is to …
- … on the paper and Scott’s response, see the letter to John Scott, 31 May [1863] , and the …
- … letter from John Scott, [3 June 1863] . See also n. …
- … 9, below. See letter to John Scott, 25 and 28 May [1863] . CD communicated Scott’s paper …
To J. D. Hooker 23 [June 1863]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 [June 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 196 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4218 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … and letter from John Scott, 16 June [1863] . …
- … See letter from John Scott, 16 June [1863] and n. 9. …
- … See letter from John Scott, 16 June [1863] , and …
- … letter to John Scott, 20 [June 1863] . See letter from J. D. Hooker, [30 April 1863] and …
- … See also letter from John Scott, [after 12] April [1863] . Scott 1863a . …
- … D. Hooker, 10 June 1863 and 19 June 1863 . See letter to John Scott, 11 June [1963] , …
From J. D. Hooker [23–7 May 1863]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [23–7 May 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 141–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4134 |
Matches: 6 hits
- … Scott’s dispute with McNab, see the letter from John Scott, 22 May 1863 . Scott wished to …
- … lectures (see letter from John Scott, 22 May 1863 and n. 3). The letter appears to be a …
- … directory 1863). See letter from John Scott, 22 May 1863 , and letter to J. D. Hooker, …
- … Hutton Balfour . See letter from John Scott, 22 May 1863 and n. 1. Thomas Anderson was …
- … J. D. Hooker, 23 May [1863] , and the letter to John Scott, 25 and 28 May [1863] . Since …
- … was sent with the letter to John Scott, 25 and 28 May [1863] . Attempts by the British to …
To J. D. Hooker 29 May [1863]
Summary
CD’s encouragement of John Scott, who has found a case of self-incompatibility in orchids, like William Herbert’s in Crinum.
Nägeli on phyllotaxy.
CD’s observations on broom fertilisation.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 29 May [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 195 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4191 |
Matches: 8 hits
- … post he had been offered in Darjeeling, India (see letter from John Scott, 22 May 1863 ). …
- … forwarded with the letter to John Scott, 25 and 28 May [1863] . The note gave Scott advice …
- … See letter from John Scott, 26 May [1863] . The reference is to John …
- … has not been found. See letter from John Scott, 6 January 1863 and nn. 23 and 24. Scott …
- … 7, above), for the Edinburgh Evening Courant (see letter from John Scott, 26 May [1863] ). …
- … See letters from John Scott , 21 March [1863] and [1–11] April [1863] . The reference is …
- … Hutton Balfour . See letter to John Scott, 25 and 28 May [1863] . In his letter to CD of [ …
- … reference is to John Scott (see letter to J. D. Hooker, 23 May [1863] , and letter from …
To J. D. Hooker [21 February 1863]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [21 Feb 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 182 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4004 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 May [1863]
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 May [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 194 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4180 |
To J. D. Hooker 26 [March 1863]
Summary
CD’s opinion of Lyell’s Antiquity of man.
Geographical distribution during and between glacial periods.
Latent characters and reversion.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 26 [Mar 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 188 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4061 |
To J. D. Hooker [1 April 1864]
Summary
Proposes to support John Scott in research on relative fertility and self-incompatibility of plants. CD would pay him for a year or two but wants JDH to give him research facilities at Kew.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [1 Apr 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 226a–b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4444 |
Matches: 3 hits
- … Correspondence vol. 11, letter from John Scott, 6 January 1863 and nn. 23 and 24; ML 1: …
- … vol. 11, letter from John Scott, 21 September [1863] , and this volume, letter from John …
- … 1863] and nn. 12–14). Scott’s experiments on the fertility of peloric flowers were undertaken at CD’s suggestion (see Correspondence vol. 10, letter to John …
To J. D. Hooker 15 February [1863]
Summary
Asa Gray on democracy of plants.
Requests plants for new hothouse. Transferring plants to Down in winter.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 15 Feb [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 181 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3986 |
To J. D. Hooker 23 April [1863]
Summary
Grieved by Falconer’s and Prestwich’s treatment of Lyell.
Reproductive anatomy of the common ash reminds CD of JDH’s Welwitschia because of its transitional forms.
Pleased JDH encourages Oliver to do orchids.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 23 Apr [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 191 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4122 |
From J. D. Hooker [10 March 1865]
Summary
Thomas Thomson has gone over Scott’s paper; encloses his conclusions. Not fit for publication in present form. His experiments should have been repeated to resolve his disagreement with Gärtner.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [10 Mar 1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 102: 13–14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4782 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … vol. 11, letter from John Scott, 21 September [1863] , and Correspondence vol. 12, …
- … John Scott , 19 November [1862] and 11 December [1862] ( Correspondence vol. 10). CD also sent Scott a digest of Gärtner’s experiments (see Scott 1867 , p. 164). On the importance of Gärtner’s work for CD’s theory of natural selection, see Correspondence vol. 10, Appendix VI. Scott’s experiments on Verbascum were made in 1863 …
From J. D. Hooker [15 August 1864]
Summary
Replies to queries on climbing plants.
JDH meets Scott and finds him an intelligent and superior-looking man. Scott wishes to come to Down before leaving England.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [15 Aug 1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 232–3 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4590 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … Correspondence vol. 11, letter from John Scott, [3 June 1863] , and this volume, letter …
- … John Hutton Balfour , regius keeper of the garden, was prejudiced against Scott because of Scott’s support for CD’s theory of natural selection (see Correspondence vol. 11, letter from J. D. Hooker, 10 June 1863 , …
To J. D. Hooker 13 January [1863]
Summary
Acquired characteristics.
Huxley’s lectures: good on induction, bad on sterility, obscure on geology.
Asa Gray on slavery.
Falconer’s partial conversion.
Alphonse de Candolle on Origin.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 13 Jan [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 179 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-3913 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … and this volume, letter from John Scott, 6 January 1863 and nn. 3 and 4. See letter to …
- … 1863] and n. 24, and Appendix VI. See DAR 157.1: 111 and 112 for CD’s botanical notes on experiments with Nepenthes (pitcher plants). CD had experimented on the power of movement in Hedysarum and Mimosa in 1862 (see Correspondence vol. 10). CD was keen to obtain fresh flowers of Acropera ; for CD’s continuing investigation of this orchid genus, see Correspondence vol. 10, letter from John Scott, …
From J. D. Hooker 10 June 1863
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 June 1863 |
Classmark: | DAR 101: 149–50 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4210 |
Matches: 2 hits
- … the enclosure to the letter from John Scott, 21 May [1863] , with his letter to Hooker of …
- … Scott’s papers to the Linnean Society . CD had enclosed the letter from Asa Gray, 26 May 1863 , with his letter to Hooker of 8 [June 1863] . Hooker and Asa Gray held radically different views on the American Civil War, and had for some time tacitly agreed not to discuss the matter in their letters (see letter from J. D. Hooker, [1 March 1863] and n. 7). Hooker refers to John Evans’s letter in the Athenæum , 6 June 1863, …
To J. D. Hooker 30 August [1866]
Summary
Pleased by JDH’s success. JDH gives argument for occasional transport with perfect fairness.
W. R. Grove’s address [see 5201] good, but is disappointed that species part was so general.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 30 Aug [1866] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 299 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-5200 |
To J. D. Hooker 8 October [1864]
Summary
Huxley has answered Kölliker in Natural History Review [(1864): 566–80].
CD is correcting two of Scott’s papers; is convinced primrose and cowslip are two good species.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 8 Oct [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 251 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4630 |
To J. D. Hooker 22 July [1863]
Summary
Differences between tendrils derived from leaves and those derived from branches.
CD on Asa Gray’s attitude on the Civil War.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 22 July [1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 199 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4250 |
To J. D. Hooker 1 June [1865]
Summary
Bad month of sickness. John Chapman’s ice bag on spine.
Does not quite agree with JDH about Lubbock’s plagiarism charges. Lyell’s memory must have failed him.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 1 June [1865] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 269, 269b |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4846 |
To J. D. Hooker 10 June [1864]
Summary
CD has proved common oxlip to be a hybrid of cowslip and primrose.
Reviewing literature on climbing plants, CD finds he has much new material.
W. H. Harvey claims evidence of saltation in a dandelion.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | 10 June [1864] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 238a–c |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4525 |
To J. D. Hooker [22–3 November 1863]
Summary
Tendril-bearing plants seem to CD "higher" organised with respect to adaptive sensibility than lower animals.
Wishes to encourage John Scott.
Death of JDH’s daughter makes CD cry over his own dead daughter Annie.
Sedgwick’s scientific merit.
Author: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Addressee: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Date: | [22–3 Nov 1863] |
Classmark: | DAR 115: 211 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-4345 |
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Hooker, J. D. |